Delwar Hossain Saidi

Delwar Hossain Saidi (born 1940) was a member of the National Assembly of Bangladesh from 1996 to 2008 and an Islamic scholar. He was a leader of the Razakars during the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971 and was tried and sentenced to death by the Bangladeshi government for war crimes.

Biography
Delwar Hossain Saidi was born in 1940 in Indurkani, Pirojpur, East Pakistan to a Muslim family. His father owned a madrassa, and Delwar attended his father's madrassa as a child. During the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971, he was a collaborator and became a leader of the Razakars, an Islamist militia force that was backed by Pakistan in the war opposing Bangladeshi independence. Kown as "Deilla Razakar", he was responsible for committing war crimes alongside Abdul Quader Molla against the people who fought for independence. Some of his crimes included the forced conversion of Hindus to Islam, raping women, attacking unarmed civilians, and sectarian attacks on Hindu communities. A member of Jamat-e-Islami, he opposed the United States' role in Afghanistan in the 2000s while serving as a member of the National Assembly, and he also was an Islamic scholar. In February 2013 he was sentenced to death for his crimes.